IBM announces the end of spam and passwords for 2016

[jordiqui]

Like it did last year, IBM has presented its traditional predictions about those aspects of technology that will transform our lives over the next five years. According to the “Blue Giant” in its first prediction, in a few years we will be able to generate energy kinetically, through the movements of our body, which could make activities like running or cycling more attractive. Another prediction that will surely please those with poor memory is the disappearance of passwords, which will be replaced by biometric technology based on facial recognition, retina scanners or voice files. Likewise, from IBM they believe that it will be possible to read people's minds, which will be possible thanks to the development of special devices in the form of helmets, which will have the capacity to read brain activity and detect facial expressions. Regarding that invention, the report adds that it will be employed in industries such as video games and entertainment. Another point that, if it occurs, will mean an important revolution is the elimination of the digital divide, which according to IBM will allow mobile phones to reach all citizens of poor countries. Finally, at IBM they predict the end of spam emails, since the advertising messages that arrive at our accounts will be personalized based on our interests and, in addition, the filters against junk messages will be much more effective. Source

[Sylver]

Goodbye to privacy according to IBM :risitas:
As hackers infiltrate the "helmets" of the big fish, there may be more than one armed conflict...

Curious prediction, the IBM people are getting pretty wet. And the thing about generating energy kinetically I can't quite imagine it. When cars fly through my neighborhood and all that, I'll start suspecting that IBM was right, while...

Best regards

[cobito]

It is true that it gets wet, but everything seems perfectly believable to me. We are talking about 4 years and that is a lot of time in the technological world.

[Sylver]

In 2007, seeing the technological advances that had also been made, I thought that by now cars would be flying and that there would already be robots buzzing around... and the truth is that robots are nothing more than expensive and dull toys within the reach of rich children and that my uncle still has his Opel Kadett from '89 :risitas: :risitas: :risitas: :risitas: :risitas: :risitas:

[incrediboy]

I can assure you that what IBM says is a lie, people are not going to renew their computers in 5 years so we will continue as always.

[Sylver]

@incrediboy:

I can assure you that what IBM says is a lie, people are not going to renew their computers in 5 years so we will continue as always.

That's what I'm referring to more or less... as society updates, technology can advance as much as it wants, there will still be villages without internet and third world people without mobile phones. It's more than likely.

[cobito]

@Sylver:

I in 2007, seeing the technological advances that had also thought that by now cars would be flying and that there would already be robots buzzing around... and the truth is that robots are nothing more than expensive and dull toys within the reach of rich children and that my uncle still has his Opel Kadett from '89 :risitas: :risitas: :risitas: :risitas: :risitas: :risitas:

@incrediboy:

I can assure you that what IBM says is a lie, people are not going to renew their computers in 5 years so we will continue as always.

@Sylver:

That's what I'm referring to more or less... at the pace that society updates, technology can advance as much as it wants, but there will still be villages without internet and people in the third world without a mobile phone. It's more than likely.

It's one way of looking at things. Another way of looking at things is to analyze how many people had a smartphone, a tablet or a netbook in 2007. Not many. And today, who doesn't have a smartphone, a tablet or a netbook? I don't know many.

As for telecommunications in the third world, it's all about reducing costs. If technology becomes affordable so that companies in those countries have a market, then it wouldn't be unreasonable to see how a telecommunications network begins to emerge in those countries that is currently unviable.

[Bm4n]

@cobito:

It's true that it gets wet, but everything seems perfectly believable to me. We're talking about 4 years and that's a lot of time in the tech world.

Think back 4 years and you'll see that we were the same, these news are merely advertising. Vale has had biometric methods for passwords for a long time but SPAM is like cockroaches, we'll die before they do.

[cobito]

@Bm4n:

Think back 4 years ago and you'll see that we were the same, these news are merely advertising. Passwords have been around for a long time and there are already biometric methods but SPAM is like cockroaches, we will die before they do.

Well, SPAM can be seen from two perspectives. On the one hand, it's undeniable that it still exists despite the efforts. But on the other hand, 5 or 6 years ago (before using a GMail account), most of the time I spent looking at my email was spent filtering junk mail. Now that time has been reduced to almost 0. And I say almost 0 because in my hotmail account something occasionally slips through, not because the decent filters (like Gmail's) fail too much.

As for SPAM in forums for example (since you'll know about this as a moderator of this one), well, if biometric login starts to become generalized, the ban will be much more effective without counting that there could be blacklists of problematic users to resort to in order to filter fraudulent records, since it doesn't take into account the IP, the username or any other anonymous and changing information, but rather personal and non-transferable parameters.

Of course, all of this will be crackable and such, but this type of barrier will make SPAM increasingly less visible just as is happening with email.

[Bm4n]

Email spam won't disappear until the system changes, if I can send an email right now impersonating your identity completely, first because you can send emails with another account's name and second because there are databases with the names and surnames of millions of users. First they update email security, then they ban the sale of personal data and then we'll talk about the end of spam.

The rest of reading minds… we don't have completely feasible technologies available and that have existed for years we're going to have brain scanners in 4 years and even more so with software capable of interpreting it... if a simple voice detection does the job like a toy shotgun!, come on man. I understand the musings of these people who dedicate themselves in R&D labs to imagining the future, but historically we know that they don't come true.

[cobito]

@Bm4n:

Email spam won't disappear until the system changes. If I can send an email right now impersonating your identity completely, first because you can send emails with another account's name and second because there are databases with the names and surnames of millions of users. First they need to update email security, then they need to ban the sale of personal data and then we can talk about the end of spam.

The rest of reading minds… we don't have completely feasible technologies available and that have existed for years. We'll have brain scanners in 4 years and even more so with software capable of interpreting it... if a simple voice detection is like a toy shotgun!, come on. I understand the musings of these people who dedicate themselves in R&D labs to imagining the future, but historically we know that they don't come true.

I didn't explain myself well. When I said "personal and intransferable parameters", I meant iris or fingerprint reading. If a truly effective system is made and blacklists of problematic users are made, SPAM could end up being a thing of the past. If there is SPAM now it's because it's very easy to open a mail account or change the IP. As soon as the user has to be identified biometrically, this problem will disappear.

As for impersonating the email identity, I suppose the impersonation won't be perfect. That is, that traces will be left of the IP from where the message is sent and such. I'm not very informed about the issue, but several times I've used some system to send notifications in my name and email from a web form, that email has ended up as junk mail despite including me as the sender and my email address. Here I speak without knowing much, just from experience.

This is certainly talking for talking, because predicting what will happen is impossible and predicting something as concrete and unpredictable as such a system becoming popular is useless. But anyway.